This website requires certain cookies to work and uses other cookies to help you have the best experience. By visiting this website, certain cookies have already been set, which you may delete and block. By closing this message or continuing to use our site, you agree to the use of cookies. Visit our updated privacy and cookie policy to learn more.
This Website Uses Cookies
By closing this message or continuing to use our site, you agree to our cookie policy. Learn More
This website requires certain cookies to work and uses other cookies to help you have the best experience. By visiting this website, certain cookies have already been set, which you may delete and block. By closing this message or continuing to use our site, you agree to the use of cookies. Visit our updated privacy and cookie policy to learn more.
Stone World logo
search
cart
facebook twitter linkedin youtube
  • Sign In
  • Create Account
  • Sign Out
  • My Account
Stone World logo
  • Home
  • Magazine
    • Current Issue
    • Digital Editions
  • CSTD Magazine
  • Topics
    • Fabricator Case Studies
    • Fabricator How-to
    • Large Scale Production
    • Stone in Architecture
    • More
  • Products
    • Featured Products
  • Statistics
  • Web Exclusives
  • Multimedia
  • Stone Guide
  • More
    • Calendar of Events
    • Classified Ads
    • Custom Content and Marketing Services
    • eNewsletters
    • Industry Links
    • Interactive Product Spotlights
    • Market Research
    • Polls
    • Stone Industry Education
    • Stone World Store
Home » Elegant slabwork enhances Dublin's premier shopping street

Elegant slabwork enhances Dublin's premier shopping street

May 8, 2007
Reprints
No Comments
For the new Boodles jewelry store on Grafton Street in Dublin, Ireland, Eva Jiricna Architects specified Azul Macaubas slabs for the walls. The material was supplied by Grein Italia of Affi, Verona, Italy.


Internationally renowned for its high-end shopping, Grafton Street in Dublin, Ireland, has naturally gone through many changes over the years. And given the significance of the street and its value to the city, there has been a strong movement in recent times to ensure that the retailers who occupy the spaces contribute to the upscale feel of the neighborhood. With this in mind, the new Boodle & Dunthorne (Boodles) store at the corner of Dublin’s Grafton Street and Harry Street was particularly welcomed by residents and architecture critics alike. Bolstered by an interior design that includes Azul Macaubas slabs on the walls, the store maintains the street’s storied reputation as a premier international shopping district.

The store was designed by Eva Jiricna Architects of London, England, which has been called upon to design several Boodles locations. The firm’s work often uses steel, stone and glass in concert with one another, and this was the theme for the Boodles space in Dublin.

Upon entering the store, visitors are immediately drawn to the large book-matched slabs of Azul Macaubas on the walls. The materials, which have a rich, blue color and have been used for upscale projects around the world, were quarried in Brazil and supplied by Grein Italia of Affi, Verona, Italy.

The luster of the stonework is enhanced through the use of complementary metal and glass. Eva Jiricna Architects has often featured an innovative staircase design as a focal point of the Boodles spaces, and the Dublin branch was no exception. A unique grand staircase, with glass stair treads (etched for slip-resistance) and decorative metal handrails and supports, runs alongside the Azul Macaubas wall. The wall enclosing the staircase is also made of glass, thus ensuring that the patron’s view of the stonework is unobstructed.

The new Boodles location in Dublin opened its doors in June of 2006, and it was very well received by architectural aficionados in the community. In a November 2006 article in the Sunday Independent on the new retailers on Grafton Street - on which about 80,000 people walk every day - the Boodles store was praised for its combination of “elegance with a contemporary feel.”

Subscribe to Stone World Magazine

Related Articles

Premier Surfaces used its owners knowledge and philosphy from the white-collared world and applied them to the fabrication shop

Slate provides an 'elegant and unique skin' for office building

You must login or register in order to post a comment.

Report Abusive Comment

Subscribe For Free!
  • Stone World Subscriptions
  • CSTD Subscriptions
  • eNewsletters
  • Online Registration
  • Subscription Customer Service

More Videos

Proliner digital templating by Prodim


IceStone Featured Product

Poll

Employees

How many employees do you have?
View Results Poll Archive

classifieds- for sale

Stone World Magazine

SW1219_Cover.jpg

2019 December

In this issue of Stone World Magazine, read about the latest Marmomac show, see how Margraf marble was used throughout an Sicilian home, view the machine of the month, PowerROC D60 from Epiroc,and much more!
View More Create Account

Contemporary Stone & Tile Design Magazine

01-CSTD2019Fall_Cover.jpg

2019 Fall

In this issue of Contemporary Stone & Tile Design magazine, read about a surprise kitchen makeover, the 2019 Ceramics of Italy Tile Competition winner in the residential category, and much more!

View More Create Account
  • Resources
    • List Rental
    • Partners
    • Privacy Policy
  • Want More
    • Stone World
    • CSTD
    • Connect
    • Survey And Sample
  • Contact Us
  • Advertise with Us
    • Advertise
  • Subscribe
    • Subscribe to Stone World
    • Subscribe to CSTD

Copyright ©2019. All Rights Reserved BNP Media.

Design, CMS, Hosting & Web Development :: ePublishing